Only registered Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) will be allowed to vote in the coming February general election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said.
The commission also noted that only those still within the three troubled states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe would be allowed to participate in the elections.
There are between 981,000 to one million IDPS.
Speaking this morning at a stakeholder’s
workshop on Internally Displaced Persons and 2015 general election, INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega said the Commission would be setting up special centres for the IDPs to vote, stressing that it is the least that could be done to allow for their participation.
Jega also said that the centres would be used for the distribution of Permanent Voters Card.
He also announced that no centre would be created in IDPs camps.
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